Some officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used brutal techniques on terrorist suspects and there was no proof of useful information yielded from the interrogation, chief of the U.S. spy agency said on Thursday. < John Brennan, in a rare televised press conference held at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, acknowledged "unauthorized" and "abhorrent" practices by some officers, saying it was "unknowable" whether the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques produced key intelligence.
The chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conceded Thursday that there was no proof of useful information yielded from the brutal interrogation techniques used by the agency on terrorism detainees.
Troops in Nigeria have arrested suspected Boko Haram cameramen who are experts in photo, video recording and filming of their attacks on communities and atrocities against innocent citizens, the country's defense authority said Monday.
The second episode of a serial documentary on the Nanjing Massacre was released on Monday ahead of the inaugural National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims.
Ai Yiying, one of the around 200 living survivors of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, shared her memory of the incident with Japanese residents at a testimony meeting Sunday in Osaka, conveying the truth about Nanjing Massacre.
Kenyan police were on Wednesday interrogating two U.S. nationals who were arrested while taking pictures of key installations in Gilgil town, about 130km northwest of Nairobi.
The Israeli military said its troops exchanged fire with gunmen along the border with the Egyptian Sinai on Wednesday afternoon in an apparent drug smuggling operation in the region.
Around 71 percent of voters Tuesday turned up to exercise their franchise in the second phase of polling for local elections in Indian- controlled Kashmir amid tight security, officials said.
A memorial for the victims of Nanjing Massacre was held in the city on Monday, as a prelude for the upcoming first national memorial day.
Chinese luxury car owners are, on average, 33.5 years old, that choose selective car brands as status symbols to support their image, according to a report released Wednesday.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced Thursday a 10-point reform bill that will unify Mexico's multi-layered police forces and stop collusion between government officials and local gangs, a move to defuse nationwide anger over the abduction and possible massacre of 43 students.
Ten people were arrested in New York as thousands protested for a second night against the Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury's decision of not indicting a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager on Aug. 9.
Only 30 percent of Americans living with HIV have the virus under control, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
As Iranian nuclear talks entered the final days in Austria, top diplomats from Iran and the West were desperately trying to seize the best opportunity they've had in 35 years to clinch a historic deal which could change the political landscape in the Middle East.
Five people were killed and 54 others injured after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit a heavily Tibetan region of southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday.
At least four attackers were killed as an explosion and ensuing gunshots rocked a fortified residential compound used by foreign staffs of UN and other international organizations in eastern part of Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday night, sources said.
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